Have you ever seen the calorie listing for Starbuck's pastries? My guess is that they are loaded with sugar. I love the maple nut scones, for example, but they are over 400 calories. Congrats to Starbucks for eliminating trans fats, but I will still be avoiding their pastries. My health is more important than the momentary pleassure of eating junk food!

Starbucks can do what they like. I'm healthy, my weight is perfect, if I want a slice of iced lemon pound cake now and then and it has bad, evil fats in it, so what? Since I'm in one of the locals targeted for the change, I'll just skip their less-fat version and I will probably not be alone. When their sales go down, the fat will be back. Why not just set up a Dept. of Healthy Food and control every bite every person in this country eats? Then no one will ever get sick and no one will ever die. NAHT!

By the way, I remember a time when it was recommended, by doctors, too, to replace a stick of butter with a stick of margarine. Now they say that margarine is bad. Moderation in all things. As Jack LaLanne says, "Exercise is King, Diet is Queen, and together you have a kingdom." He disagrees with all this nitpicking of what is good/bad to eat. A daily low-fat muffin isn't "good". Just eat as naturally as possible and make sure you move your body every day and that's the best anyone can do. There are TONS of fat people who eat nothing but lo-carb, lo-fat, sugar subs, etc. When I eat ice cream it's real ice cream, when I eat bread, it's real bread. One real chocolate chip cookie made with butter is a lot better than a box of Healthy Choice cookies.

Amen.

They can discontinue their coffee for all I care. It tastes awful.